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Portrait of Mercer Ellington, Part I (Podcast #24-002)
“At Columbia University’s New College, where I was studying engineering, my instructors constantly inquired whether I had written any songs. I was persuaded to sit down and play several of my compositions for them. Next they demanded why I wasn’t studying music formally. Their insistence convinced me that I ought to take a try.”
Mercer Ellington, Negro Digest, May 1951
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